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Tagmosis vs Metamerism - What's the difference?

tagmosis | metamerism |

In biology terms the difference between tagmosis and metamerism

is that tagmosis is the evolutionary process that creates tagmata by fusing and modifying segments while metamerism is the segmentation of the body into similar discrete units.

tagmosis

English

Noun

(-)
  • (biology) The evolutionary process that creates tagmata by fusing and modifying segments.

    • metamerism

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (biology) The segmentation of the body into similar discrete units
  • (colorimetry ) The matching of apparent color of objects with different spectral power distributions.
    • Whilst the new paint was a good metameric match under natural light, it looked odd under a fluorescent light.
  • (chemistry) structural isomerism

    • Related terms

    *metamer *metamere *metameric